xj-grin
NAXJA Member #1096
- Location
- Colorado Springs, Colorado
because jimgrms needs to see and enjoy more pictures of blue-oval beastly loveliness, I'm starting a stomper thread. :scottm:
Stomper is:
1979 F250, originally a "highboy" type truck, with a 351W, Ford metalic rust paint and a long bed, a D60 rear and a D44 front. Now a 460 punched 3 over (don't know what that makes it), backed by a BW T-18 w/ granny 1st and an NP205, KP D60 front w/ detroit, D70 rear w/ detroit and a TSM caddy disc conversion, 4.88 gearing. Includes deluxe features like airhorn siren, PA system hooked to the CB, 18K PTO winch, massive air-tank bumper, internal cage, 3k power inverter, rocking stereo -- oh yeah, she's loaded. :rtm:
Backstory: Stomper was a stocker owned for years by an old college friend of mine, nickname "pony boy". Pony grew up, literally in a one room house with 6 sibs and lets say zealous folks. He got the hell out of there as soon as he was able, and brought the truck with him. An even older friend (nearly 30 years now) bought the truck from him and immediately modded the crap out of it and named it Stomper -- this is version 4.0 or something like that as builds go. Shortly after Vern bought the truck from Pony, Pony died in a rock climbing accident -- nearly 20 years ago, now. So I have some history with this truck, as I have been riding in it to the bar, building it, breaking it, and generally helping in its construction/deconstruction for a couple of decades...
As she showed up at my place, sitting on brand-spanking 42x14.5r17 IROK's w/ a full size spare (which will all be for sale shortly if a certain someone doesn't scrape together some scratch :conceited):
Now sitting on some used 37x13.5r17 Toyo MTs -- you know you love the custom cowl frankenhood (at least I know Frank does):
Cushy seats from a late 90's dodge, with fold-down storage console (and oh-yeah, that's a solid wood grant wheel, only the best baby):
Used to have a custom utility bed (massive), I'll be replacing it with a flatbed as soon as I find a decent deal on one that isn't 8' wide... Dual tanks for something like 45 gallons of fuel -- that will get me to Big R and back, I hope, after I clean the snot out of the fuel system...
Behemoth bumper -- likely to be replaced with a snow plow/bumper here in short order -- I'll then need to fab a new winch cradle for the PTO...
Beastly motor, only 10k on the clock since a full rebuild, but currently suffering through some fouled fuel problems -- working through it, cleaning, running, cleaning, running, rinse, repeat... and yeah, that is one big ass air compressor on the right front!
I have NIB some new gages, a HEI single wire chevy-style distributor for the 460, and a custom wiring harness for all of it, though I don't know when I'll get to putting it together... the slow, slow progress will be documented here! :cheers:
Stomper is:
1979 F250, originally a "highboy" type truck, with a 351W, Ford metalic rust paint and a long bed, a D60 rear and a D44 front. Now a 460 punched 3 over (don't know what that makes it), backed by a BW T-18 w/ granny 1st and an NP205, KP D60 front w/ detroit, D70 rear w/ detroit and a TSM caddy disc conversion, 4.88 gearing. Includes deluxe features like airhorn siren, PA system hooked to the CB, 18K PTO winch, massive air-tank bumper, internal cage, 3k power inverter, rocking stereo -- oh yeah, she's loaded. :rtm:
Backstory: Stomper was a stocker owned for years by an old college friend of mine, nickname "pony boy". Pony grew up, literally in a one room house with 6 sibs and lets say zealous folks. He got the hell out of there as soon as he was able, and brought the truck with him. An even older friend (nearly 30 years now) bought the truck from him and immediately modded the crap out of it and named it Stomper -- this is version 4.0 or something like that as builds go. Shortly after Vern bought the truck from Pony, Pony died in a rock climbing accident -- nearly 20 years ago, now. So I have some history with this truck, as I have been riding in it to the bar, building it, breaking it, and generally helping in its construction/deconstruction for a couple of decades...
As she showed up at my place, sitting on brand-spanking 42x14.5r17 IROK's w/ a full size spare (which will all be for sale shortly if a certain someone doesn't scrape together some scratch :conceited):
Now sitting on some used 37x13.5r17 Toyo MTs -- you know you love the custom cowl frankenhood (at least I know Frank does):
Cushy seats from a late 90's dodge, with fold-down storage console (and oh-yeah, that's a solid wood grant wheel, only the best baby):
Used to have a custom utility bed (massive), I'll be replacing it with a flatbed as soon as I find a decent deal on one that isn't 8' wide... Dual tanks for something like 45 gallons of fuel -- that will get me to Big R and back, I hope, after I clean the snot out of the fuel system...
Behemoth bumper -- likely to be replaced with a snow plow/bumper here in short order -- I'll then need to fab a new winch cradle for the PTO...
Beastly motor, only 10k on the clock since a full rebuild, but currently suffering through some fouled fuel problems -- working through it, cleaning, running, cleaning, running, rinse, repeat... and yeah, that is one big ass air compressor on the right front!
I have NIB some new gages, a HEI single wire chevy-style distributor for the 460, and a custom wiring harness for all of it, though I don't know when I'll get to putting it together... the slow, slow progress will be documented here! :cheers:
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